Joint Bureaux Meetings

Joint Bureaux Meeting - 2014

Joint meeting of the bureaux of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions

Participants

By decisions BC-11/25 and SC-6/29, the conferences of the parties to the Basel and Stockholm conventions at their eleventh and sixth meetings respectively, decided that five members of their bureaux may participate in the joint meetings of the bureaux of the conferences of the parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, having due regard to the principle of equitable geographical representation of the five regions of the United Nations.

A process and selection criteria to assist each Bureau with the selection of five members to participate in the joint bureaux meeting in November 2014 was agreed to by the bureaux.

The process included consideration of the following selection criteria: (1) Availability of members to participate (2) Regional balance in each Bureau and sub-regional balance among three bureaux and (3) Gender balance.

Following regional consultations in each Bureau, the Basel and Stockholm COP presidents, taking into account the process and criteria referred to above, agreed to the selection which was subsequently communicated to the bureaux.

Report and meeting documents

Report of the joint meeting of the bureaux of the conferences of the parties
to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions
Geneva, Switzerland, 11-12 November 2014

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English

Items: 12

Provisional agenda

Annotations to the provisional agenda

Draft tentative schedule of work for the ordinary meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions in May 2015

Elements of a scenario note for the ordinary meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions in 2015

Preparation of the reports on credentials for the ordinary meetings of
the conferences of the parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm
conventions in 2015

Information on elections of officers and subsidiary body members to take place during the meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions in 2015

Concept note on the theme for the meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions in May 2015

Concept note on the science fair in the margins of the meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions in May 2015

Elements of draft terms of reference for the review of the synergies arrangements, including a review of the matrix-based management approach

Overview of the budget preparations for the programmes of work of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions for the biennium 2016-2017

Information on arrears in assessed contributions to the general trust funds of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions

Compliance under the Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions

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English

Items: 4

Proceedings of the United Nations Environment Assembly of
the United Nations Environment Programme at its first session

Report of the meeting of the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of
Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
Geneva, Switzerland, 22-23 May 2014

Report of the meeting of the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to the
Rotterdam Convention
Rome, Italy, 4-5 June 2014

Report of the meeting of the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
Geneva, Switzerland, 14-15 May 2014